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The State Is Coming For Your Roomba Authored by Thiago V. S. Coelho via The Mises Institute, The federal government has discovered another menace to the republic: the vacuum cleaner. In July, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced "advanced robotic devices" to its Covered List, generally preventing new models from receiving the authorization needed to be imported, marketed, or sold in the United States. Although early headlines emphasized Chinese humanoid robots and mechanical dogs, Sean Hollister reported in The Verge that the rule also encompasses robotic vacuums, lawnmowers, delivery machines, and many...

Times Square Stabbing Victim Was Bank of America VP One of the two victims of a Midtown Manhattan stabbing yesterday has been identified as a vice president in Bank of America's global corporate and investment bank division, the WSJ reports.  Erin Piacenti, 32, of New Jersey was in Times Square when an unhinged woman armed with knives attacked both Piacenti and a man shortly after 4:20 p.m. "We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague. She was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed," a BofA spokesman said. "Our...

A missile strike on a commercial ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday killed at least four crew members, Reuters has reported, in an attack blamed on Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, though the group has yet to take credit. The Reuters report said that the Tihamah, a small, Egyptian-owned cargo […]